Democrats Articles Of Impeachment May Not Include Bribery Or Quid Pro Quo

By William Teach December 10, 2019 – 7:26 am

As Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia (R) said about this “They can’t get over the fact that Donald Trump is the president of the United States, and they don’t have a candidate that can beat him.” They’ve been working towards this since Trump won the election, and now we get

Dems expected to announce at least 2 articles of impeachment against Trump on Tuesday

House Democrats are preparing to announce at least two articles of impeachment against President Trump on Tuesday, Fox News has learned.

The articles of impeachment will focus on obstruction of Congress and abuse of power, but all details aren’t settled yet, Fox News is told. A markup session by the Judiciary Committee to prepare the articles would come either Wednesday or Thursday.

Notably absent from the planned charges was a “bribery” count. Democrats had repeatedly accused the president of essentially bribing Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, and even floated the idea of drafting an article of impeachment to that effect. But, it quickly emerged that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had conducted focus groups to determine that Democrats should use the term “bribery” purely for political benefit, even as legal experts disputed whether Trump had bribed anyone.

So, obstruction of a partisan political inquiry that wouldn’t have happened if Democrats (and right leaning NeverTrumpers) weren’t so unhinged, obsessed, and deranged. We’ll have to see how abuse of power shakes down in relation to the accusation of quid pro quo. Remember, the Democratic Party run House Judiciary Committee released a report Saturday in which it argued that a president may be impeached for “illegitimate motives” even if his actions are “legally permissible.” The report states: “The question is not whether the President’s conduct could have resulted from permissible motives. It is whether the President’s real reasons, the ones in his mind at the time, were legitimate.”

Democrats should remember that they have now set the bar that Politics 101 is now grounds for impeachment, and shouldn’t be surprised if Republicans do the same thing against a sitting Democrat president. Though, they won’t, because they aren’t stupid. Speaking of stupid

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Bummer: UN Climate Hysteria Meeting Failing To Address Climate Apocalypse

By William Teach December 9, 2019 – 4:10 pm

Well, they’re having too much fun in the great vacation spot of Madrid. Good food, good wine, good friends, paid for by the taxpayers

UN climate talks failing to address urgency of crisis, says top scientist

Urgent UN talks on tackling the climate emergency are still not addressing the true scale of the crisis, one of the world’s leading climate scientists has warned, as high-ranking ministers from governments around the world began to arrive in Madrid for the final days of negotiations.

Talks are focusing on some of the rules for implementing the 2015 Paris agreement, but the overriding issue of how fast the world needs to cut greenhouse gas emissions has received little official attention.

“We are at risk of getting so bogged down in incremental technicalities at these negotiations that we forget to see the forest for the trees,” said Johan Rockström, joint director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. “There is a risk of disappointment in the UN process because of the inability to recognise that there is an emergency.”

Perhaps they should consider that people care in theory, not in practice

The stately pace of negotiations was in stark contrast with the scenes outside the conference in Madrid, where on Friday evening more than 500,000 people marched through the Spanish capital led by the Swedish school striker Greta Thunberg. Protests continued through the weekend, with Extinction Rebellion and groups from across the world. On Monday, Thunberg and other youth activists will hold meetings with officials inside the conference.

Now, go out and fully explain to those protesters how much they will end up paying out of their own pockets and how much their freedom, liberty, and choice will be restricted, and see how many walk away.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 9, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a bridge needed to walk across an area flooded because Other People ate burgers, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post on a promise Trump just kept that globalists do not like.

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We’re One Step Closer To A Space Force

By William Teach December 9, 2019 – 10:29 am

But, not really worth it

White House, Democrats strike tentative deal to create Space Force in exchange for federal parental-leave benefits: report

The White House and House Democrats have reportedly reached a tentative deal to authorize the creation of the Space Force, a priority for the Trump administration first outlined in an executive order by the president earlier this year.

The Washington Post reported Sunday that Democrats and White House negotiators had struck a bargain that would authorize the creation of the agency in exchange for a policy establishing 12 weeks of paid parental leave time for federal workers.

It isn’t clear if the plan will be able to win enough Republican support to pass the Senate, according to the Post, but the plan appears to have the backing of both President Trump and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), a rare moment of compromise amid the House’s impeachment hearings.

“Trump doesn’t like the so-called ‘deep state’ and I doubt that he’s going to bed at night saying, ‘Look what I did for federal workers,’ Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) told the Post. “But it was a trade-off for him. And it’s good policy.”

Guess who gets to pay for all this? Must be nice to take a job where you know what the benefits are then get government to provide you with more benefits that Someone Else pays for.

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Per U.N., ‘Climate Change’ And Technologies Are The Modern Day Wedges Between Haves And Have-nots

By William Teach December 9, 2019 – 7:18 am

We can solve this with a tax, you know. Also, this is all your fault for having that nice computer, tablet, and smartphone. Oh, and you have those WiFi lightbulbs? And and Alexa or Google Home device? Even worse!

New inequalities created by climate change and tech, says UN

A new generation of global inequalities driven by climate change and technology could trigger violence and political instability if left unchecked, the United Nations has warned.

Climate change and technology rather than wealth and income are the modern-day wedges that are increasingly dividing the haves from the have-nots, said the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in its 2019 Human Development Report.

These forms of inequality are rising as progress has been made in more traditional measures of inequality such as extreme poverty and disease, it said.

“Under the shadow of the climate crisis and sweeping technological change, inequalities in human development are taking new forms,” the report said.

“The climate crisis is already hitting the poorest hardest, while technological advances such as machine learning and artificial intelligence can leave behind entire groups of people, even countries.”

Allowing these new inequalities to grow could be “extremely dangerous and highly volatile,” said UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner.

So, obviously, Government must Do Something. Because otherwise

“Across the rich and emerging countries and also developing countries where a middle class has emerged, their reactions are increasingly violent,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in advance of the report’s release.

“If not managed well and practically, it will essentially manifest itself in what we see on the evening news – burning cars, burning buildings, burning infrastructure, millions of people in the streets protesting and overthrowing governments.”

Street protests have filled the news of late, in Hong Kong, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Chile, Bolivia, Venezuela and elsewhere over an array of issues including rising prices, government policies, corruption and pro-democracy movements.

So……government must control all this so that people do not protest rising prices from government policies (such as gas prices in France from ‘climate change’ policies), government corruption, and, good grief, the protesters might want democracy? That’s horrible!!!!!! We must stop them with more government policies, corruption, and anti-democracy/big government.

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Trump Looks To Expand “Migrant” Family Detention

By William Teach December 9, 2019 – 7:06 am

This has made the NY Times Very Upset, but, they miss the most obvious solution

Despite Warnings, Trump Moves to Expand Migrant Family Detention

On a burning hot day last summer at the South Texas Family Residential Center, a federal detention facility for immigrant families, Kenia and her son, Michael, 11, were hunched over a foosball table in an air-conditioned recreation room when Michael dropped to the floor and started sobbing. He curled his body into a ball and writhed as if he were in pain.

The other parents and children in the room looked up from their jump ropes and boomboxes as Kenia knelt down and pleaded into Michael’s ear: Would he please go back to their room before the guards noticed him?

“I don’t want to be here, I don’t want to be here,” Michael shouted, his eyes clenched.

The date of this particular meltdown, Kenia can’t remember — not because it wasn’t memorable, but because it was one of many times her son broke down during the four months they were detained after arriving in the United States.

Kenia also felt like she was falling apart, unsure of what would happen to them. Guards had warned her that if Michael continued to misbehave, they would be punished, which she assumed meant being sent back to Honduras.

“We were always being watched,” she said.

She and Michael could have avoided this but not showing up at the border and demanding entrance. Or crossing the border illegally. Article doesn’t say. It’s a very simple concept. If you get caught driving drunk, whose fault is that? Will you blame the police?

The experiences of migrant families like Kenia’s who were held for months behind the locked gates of a secure facilty offer insight into what thousands of others could face if the Trump administration succeeds in creating one of the few long-term incarceration systems for families in the developed world.

Amid a wide-ranging campaign to discourage migration to the United States, President Trump has vowed repeatedly to end the practice he calls “catch and release,” under which migrants are allowed to live freely in the United States while their lengthy immigration cases are in process.

A goodly chunk of those people never show up for their court dates. And most do not qualify for asylum. Further, the U.S. taxpayers end up on the hook for decades of taking care of these “migrants”.

The administration wants to expand the system of secure facilities where migrant families can be incarcerated for months or longer. In late November, Justice Department lawyers appealed a federal judge’s decision that blocked the government’s attempt to eliminate a 20-day time limit on most family detentions.

If the appeal is successful, Kenia and Michael’s experience of being detained for months — the result of a legal fluke that left them institutionalized far longer than current standards allow — could become the norm. Facilities like the one at Dilley, which is run by the private prison company, CoreCivic, could multiply to incarcerate more than 15,000 parents and children across the country.

They shouldn’t even be allowed entrance to the U.S. while their asylum claims are being processed.

The rest of the article is all the doom and gloom of “incarcerating” the migrants and their children, which the Times would prefer to stop. Well, sure, we can stop it. They just don’t enter the U.S. unless asylum is approved. Easy peasy. But, Democrats are for open borders, and would love to flood the country with illegals and migrants.

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Cult: Most Germans Fine With Doing Away With Christmas Lights Due To ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach December 8, 2019 – 5:33 pm

Of course, the same poll should have asked if the respondants were willing to give up their use of fossil fuels, washing machines, ice makers, hair dryers,and smartphones, among others, and would make their own clothes and grow their own food

Climate change: Majority of Germans support ditching Christmas lights

A majority of Germans say they would consider scaling down their Christmas lights to protect the climate, a survey released on Sunday said. A total of 57% of those surveyed said they would reduce Christmas lighting or even do without it in the future, according to the survey conducted by YouGov on behalf of the German news agency DPA.

Of the respondents, 11% said they would make do without any lights this year due to climate concerns, while 10% said they would do so in the future. But 35% said turning off the lights was not an option for them.

Opinion is split on whether there should be fewer lights on buildings and in the streets in general, with 44% both for and against the idea. Having lights up during the festive season is appreciated by a large majority of 79% in Germany. Almost seven out of 10 people surveyed plan to decorate their homes with electric Christmas lights this year.

See, they would consider it. In the future. But, not now.

Christmas lights are a common feature during the festival season every year, with the lights wrapped around homes, streets and trees. But scientists have warned that the lighting does have an environmental cost.

But, the article provides nothing to back that up, not even a link.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 8, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible heat snow from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is DC Clothesline, with a post on village idiot AOC not understanding that 25,000 is greater than 1,500

It’s flannel week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach December 8, 2019 – 9:30 am

Patriotic Pinup Joyce Ballentyne

Happy Sunday! Yet another fantastic day in America. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and my NJ Devils are working to obtain the 1st pick in next year’s draft. This pinup is by Joyce Ballentyne, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Climate Change Dispatch notes a school banning Christmas cards over ‘climate change’
  2. Jo Nova asks what you call it when the government turns off your air conditioning
  3. Adrienne’s Corner wonders about Conservatives also living in a bubble
  4. Blazing Cat Fur covers Japan telling the Pope to pound sound on taking in refugees
  5. Chicks On The Right notes that Melania’s clothes are not a secret code
  6. Creeping Sharia discusses a Montreal cop suspended for “insulting” a Muslim man
  7. Doug Ross @ Journal has Dem superstars impeachment daily update
  8. Geller Report News notes Rashida Tlaib wearing a terrorist symbol on House floor while opposing existence of Israel
  9. hogewash features some awesome photos from space
  10. Jihad Watch notes a bystander getting fined after a Muslim says that Arabs are here to take over Sweden
  11. Legal Insurrection discusses the reality of the food stamp rules
  12. Maggie’s Farm says that NATO no longer serves America’s interests
  13. Moonbattery covers Bloomberg declaring war on lawful gun owners
  14. neo-neocon discusses Salt-Shakergate
  15. And last, but not least, Pacific Pundit notes Twitter scrubbing the Pensacola terrorist attackers tweets

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me.

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

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#TDS: House Report Says Trump Can Be Impeached For “Motives”

By William Teach December 8, 2019 – 8:20 am

Democrats have been talking about impeaching Trump even before he was elected. That talk increased heavily the minute he was elected. And even more when he took office

Those are from inauguration day, and neither attempted to shoot down the unhinged nutters pushing it. Democrats have been looking for any excuse, and now

House Judiciary Committee Report: President Can Be Impeached for ‘Motives’ Without Breaking Law

The House Judiciary Committee released a report Saturday in which it argued that a president may be impeached for “illegitimate motives” even if his actions are “legally permissible.”

The 52-page report, written by 20 members of the staff for the Democratic majority, attempts to provide a legal and constitutional basis for the Democrats’ ongoing effort to impeach the president.

The report states: “The question is not whether the President’s conduct could have resulted from permissible motives. It is whether the President’s real reasons, the ones in his mind at the time, were legitimate.”

So, Democrats are mind readers, now? They know what Trump’s “real reasons” are? Nutballs.

The Breitbart article also notes 11 questionable features of the report, such as not using the testimony of their “legal scholars” from the other day, suggesting the report was already written. And

3. The report invents an absurdly broad standard for “bribery.” The report, backed by selective and misleading claims about the Framers’ intent, declares: “Impeachable bribery occurs when the President offers, solicits, or accepts something of personal value to influence his own official actions.” That standard would implicate every elected official in the United States, all of whom accept campaign contributions in return for policy promises.

Exactly.

4. The report cites radical left-wing activists committed to impeaching Trump. The report cites “scholars” such as Zephyr Teachout, who is on the advisory board of a group called “Impeach Trump Now.” It also cites Harvard’s Lawrence Tribe, who declared in December 2016 that Trump’s impeachment should “begin on Inauguration Day.” It ignores contrary views, even by left-wing sources like Cass Sunstein, whom it quotes selectively (see below).

Both of those headlines at the top are explicitly citing the Impeach Trump Now group.

7. The report bends over backwards to justify impeachment without any crime being committed. The report spends a great deal of space arguing that a president does not have to commit an actual crime to be impeached — a claim hotly debated among scholars. It notes that previous impeachments have included charges of “non-criminal” acts, but ignores the fact that no presidential impeachment has ever proceeded without any criminal acts alleged.

Congratulations on winning the 2020 election, Mr. Trump.

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